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The Age of Turmoil (Worldbook Chapter 2)

"The Age of Turmoil (Approx. 12.000 years before the Fall) Horns of war blow from the distant peaks and betoken the second age. From the southeast comes the first sighting of the reptilian Xeal followed by the appearance throughout the land of Ogres and Trolls..."

A new blogentry is online: "The Age of Turmoil" (Worldbook Chapter 2) tells us about the appearance of goblins, orcs, humans and the other younger races. Full article in our blog:

http://godsandminions.com/blog/gods-minions/the-age-of-turmoil

What are the fundamental functional differences between boardgames and card games? I’m not sure how important this question is from a game player’s point of view but it’s certainly important for game designers (even for video game designers). The obvious physical format is important, but now that we can convert physical non-electronic games to electronic formats the lines are less clear. More importantly, each type of game emphasizes or encourages different kinds of challenges and gameplay, regardless of the physical format.

One of the disadvantages of writing articles for magazines, such as “Against the Odds,” is that it can be literally years from the time it is submitted to the time it is published. I recently sent ATO an article about different kinds of war related games, and I’m going to briefly categorize its 4,000 words in 400.

I will not respond to any comments here, sooner or later the full article will be published.

Joe Angiolillo’s taxonomy of war related games:
● Games about war
● Wargames
● Simulations

Games about war
● no connection with reality
● symmetric

The Game Crafter is pleased to announce the RPG Challenge! We want you to design a role-playing game in the form of a board or card game. It doesn't matter whether you build a dungeon crawler like Descent, or more of a story telling game like Betrayal at House on the Hill, or a funny little card game like Munchkin; all that matters is that it takes the form of a role-playing game. It also doesn't matter whether your game requires a game master, or if the adventure is random, or if there are predefined adventures. 

Hey,
A few might already have noticed that i started working on a brand new game. This will be my first try to create an all professional product from start to finish (just have a look at my game journal if you want to know more).

Gods & Minions is a traditional, light wargame taking place in a dark fantasy world. It follows the classic road of fantasy wargames and still incorporates many elements that make the game unique and enjoyable. Typical for the genre, the players are generals - commanding mighty fantasy armies into battle to decide the ultimate winner.